Two & One
Canoes slide through still waters
Peace finds its own way
Two meters, One heart
There is a dojo...
There is a Dojo - a place of practice
Far beyond the place
even beneath the space
within time it is hidden
Simplicity
is the language
the practice of love
is its DO
Practicing is
the DO of DO-paths
where being and doing
becomes one
by letting go
The fee is
not to judge
breath its rhythm
trust the glue
Consciousness the sensei
Fulfillment its goal
Healing of hearts
is its action
It needs no protection
Life itself guards is gates
Joy its song
Companionship its gift
It has no name
In this moment I call it
Dojo of the Heart
My heart overflows with gratitude
For life
For being awake
NOW
- toke in Vancouver Island 2010
There are Choices
There are choices to be made
By each and everyone
If you awake to their importance.
Do I want to be a slave
Of the yin or the yang?
Of the right and the wrong?
Of the them and the us?
Or will I finally choose
To be with Life as it breathes me?
As it flows
Ever so kindly
Into me in its dynamic rhythm
Offering its experience
Of oneness
Of peace
Of protection
From the madness
Of living and perceiving life
Only as two fighting opposites?
How may I remember
more often
That all life is connected
In one invisible whole
That my heart knows so well?
Toke - now 77 years on Planet Earth
As 2024 ends & 2025 begins
As 2024 ends & 2025 begins
Life and it’s nature keeps on
manifesting it’s flow and beauty
regardless of all we do.
That is beautiful to the Heart
This kind of beauty gives
inspiration, strength and clarity to choose
love over hate
kindness over violence
generosity over greed
humanity over ego
peaceful coexistence rather than
seeing others as someone to conquer.
May we practice and appreciate that Life connection
and the spaces of grace
it offers us all to share
with respect and love
Monica & Toke
Literacy for Peace
Ah to learn to peace
The urgency for peace
The urgency for stillness
For the calmess of Life flowing
In and between us
When we sincerely
Practise peace
Moment by moment
Each day
The unifying power of
Loving
Serving
Becoming amplifiers
Of peace and sanity
For All
What a skill
What a determination
For cocreating
Literacy of Peace
flowing across
This troubled human race
For this beautiful Planet
What could also become possible
if we become skillful at peace?
To be with
To be with that
That cannot be spoken
But only felt
Is like feeling
The Oneness
Of it All.
What a sweet open secret
Spiralling flow
As we spiral in
Returning to the Heart
What matters
Becomes
Now
And
Graceful kindness
Begins to flow
In all directions
Heaven's secret is motherly love.
Everyone under heaven
says that my Tao
is great, but inconceivable.
It is its very greatness that makes it inconceivable!
If it could be conceived of,
how small it would be!
I have three treasures to hold and protect:
The first is motherly love.
The second is economy.
The third is daring not
to be first in the world.
With motherly love one can be courageous.
With economy one can be expansive.
With humility one can lead.
To be courageous
without motherly love, to
be expansive without practicing economy,
to go to the front without humility
- this is courting death.
Venture with love
and you win the battle.
Defend with love and you are invulnerable.
Heaven's secret is
Motherly love.
Wisdom from The Tao Te Ching 2600 years ago - by Lao Tzu some where in China
Now is the Future
As time and space
Dances in the rhythm
Of
the Heart
The Now
reveals itself
To be the forever
Most real
&
Kind
Possible future
Wishing you all a peaceful 2024
- in the midst of it all.
With love for Life in All
Monica & Toke
Peace today
Peace is
- peace is important
- peace for me is
my responsibility.
For peace tomorrow
I practise peace
today.
Today is global peace day.
A bow of gratitude for
the everlasting gift of
the experience of peace within
From there arises
peace in action.
☺️❤️🙏🌀
Letting go
Oh - to let go
Of all my
Expectations
Complications
Judgements
Disturnbances
Opions
Rights & wrongs
All the noise
To entrust all that
To what forever changes
To rest in the rhythm
Of breath
To drink of the oneness
A wee bit more
Each moment
Each day
Sejs 20 August 2023
Louder
It is time
For me now
To listen louder
To the wisdom
That flows
In the Now
To more moments
Of my life time
As its ending
Comes closer with every breath
To my heart within
For its drumbeat
Of endless Gratitude
For Life
For friends
For family
For teachers
For those who were
For me still being here
For All
That is.
At the lake - Sejs - 14 August 2023
Focussing
Walk more
Talk less
Listen louder
Placing my attention
Is an inner power
Filled with promise
This and that
No wonder
In the breath
Life at its best
Gratitude
From within
Living from within
makes
Everything beautiful
beyond thought….
What a sweet
Mystery
Learning to live from within
Living
from within
Magic seems
To be
build in.
4 Febuary - Munnar, India
Entering the New year 2023
In this perfect storm
at this time in our story
as a race of humans striving to be
- most of us long for kindness, peace and sanity
- as is only natural.
Time to water that longing and trust that in the long run
we will learn and choose to live better and more lovingly together.
Wishing you all an even more awake life each day.
- with love and appreciation for our friendships with you
- Monica and Toke
The Art of Now
Learning how to flow home into
The simple Oneness of Life itself
Is an ancient Art
Yet it is always
Ever possible in
The Here and Now
What if this is
The medicine for how
to know myself
To cocreate with
&
serve others and the Whole
In peaceful coexistence
To practise
Wellbeing for
All?
